Japan Cuts 2014 Review: LOVE'S WHIRLPOOL Offers Potent Mix of Eroticism, Comedy, And Melancholy

Miura Daisuke (Boys on the Run) adapts his own award-winning 2005 play Love's Whirlpool into his latest film of the same name, and it is quite a remarkable and wonderfully acted film where sex is the main subject and the driving force behind what happens. However, despite this singular focus, deeper layers are laid bare in this quite literally revealing tale of Japan's fuzoku (sex industry), and how people use this as an escape from superficial and rather empty existences in order to indulge the...